Notices by Andrew Hinton (andrewhinton@jawns.club)

@mekkaokereke I remember in Ken Burns’ 90s documentary, slavery is posited as the prime cause by a Black scholar, which is framed as *a* perspective, not *the* perspective. And it *felt controversial* to me as a relatively well-educated 23 year old from the south.

@phenidone @mekkaokereke Sort of the former — I just vaguely remember learning in high school & college that historians were divided about “central cause” vs “one of several causes” or “second order cause”.
Actually this article from @kerileighmerritt explains it well https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-we-need-new-civil-war-documentary-180971996/

I’ve mixed feelings re violence done even to the most “deserving”.
But it is interesting how if a mob boss responsible for 100s of deaths is gunned down, we say he had it coming … but when an executive manages to kill & dispossess thousands — just with better lawyers — we shouldn’t be so callous.

@eaton @SwiftOnSecurity lol I’m not sure I absorbed that lesson completely when I read it in high school 😅

Better to get behind a new nominee immediately, and catalyze unity & energy behind that campaign vs arguing for days about who it should be. People will get behind the choice if leaders signal the direction. And Harris is the only person set up for that role *right now* (and a solid candidate imo)

Glad to see just hours later this is what is happening. Faster than I’d hoped.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @mralancooper I do wish more media attention was about the connection between billionaires and fascism and less about bullshit

This is root cause of much of the bad news we have heard this week and many of the worst things humans have ever done to other humans … recommended reading

Anil Dash (@anildash) https://me.dm/@anildash/112717816782569266

@Mojoe Source? Or an imagined cathartic conversation?

If your employer turns off the ability to delete or edit one’s own posts to the enterprise chat system, I think we should call it “roguelike mode”

@BethanyBlack @andrewhickeywriter I feel this but my version in the Philly burbs is “a good pizza joint that sells slices”

Maybe it’s capital that’s eating the world and software was just a new fork?

@inthehands @emenel Sadly it’s not even meeting employer needs even if employers think that’s what they need

I always remind my team to keep notes on accomplishments throughout the year so they’ll have it all ready to enter into the year-end performance evaluation process.

But do I follow my own advice? Do I??!?!!?

@feditips @NaturaArtisMagistra Ok maybe I’ve been doing something wrong — I’ll check again when I’m at my laptop

I wish I had known I wouldn’t be able to even log into my “old” mastodon account after changing servers, because I would’ve revised the old user profile to give some context.
Or is there some way to do that I’m not aware of? #mastodon